MUS- M 402 1st EditionLecture 11Outline of Last LectureI. The Beethovenian Style (continued)II. Symphony No. 9 in D minorOutline of Current Lecture I. After Beethoven: Characteristics of Beethoven’s music that have an incredible influence on what comes next…II. New Traditions of RomanticismCurrent LectureI. After Beethoven: Characteristics of Beethoven’s music that have an incredible influence on what comes next…a. At the end of Beethoven’s music, much had changed in the way of “Music of the Western Art Tradition”.i. Beethoven had accomplished so much in music that composers were forced to come up with a plan of where they could go from here. b. Beethoven’s compositional style had been established an officially recognized as one of extremes: i. Extremes of largeness: 1. Extremely large2. Very long3. Enormously large ensemble requirements4. A feeling of “hugeness”ii. Extremes of smallnessiii. Extremes of emotionsiv. Extremes of contrastv. Beethoven commonly explored different dimensions of music, but no matter what he explored, it was be done intensely. vi. A type of Beethovenian narrative begins to carry over into over and switch into actually telling stories in program music. vii. Beethoven is also recognized for composing for dramatic effect. viii. Beethoven experiments with form.1. This influences romantic composers because they were impressed with Beethoven’s ability to create spontaneous new forms and notjust compose in the same forms that have been passed down throughout generations. ix. Beethoven establishes the idea of “End Waiting”- the audience must waituntil the end of the piece in order to fully understand it. c. New Traditions of Romanticism i. Romanticism- the idea of going after something that is bigger than oneself, that could in fact destroy someone, but that is so intriguing because it is unknown.1. The attractions to “the strange”, the grotesque, Victorian Gothicii. Throughout this time, in a period of social and political conservatism, composers experience a moment of cultural radicalism. iii. Changes in genre- getting away from set genres and focusing on real expression instead of formal
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